Business Abroad: Following Henry Ford

In the sunny living room of his home near Osaka, 26-year-old Seiji
Hayakawa last week contemplated his existence and found it good.
Mornings, Seiji and his young wife Kumiko wake to the bubbling of their
automatic rice cooker, turned on minutes before by an electric timing
device. Evenings they watch Laramie or the samurai dramas on their
television set and right off the winter chill by toasting their feet on
an electric footwarmer. So well paid are their jobs at the nearby
Matsushita Electric Co. radio plantas a foreman, Seiji makes...